Blue Moon Podcast - A Manchester City Show

It might not have been a classic performance against RB Leipzig, but it got the job done. David Mooney is joined by City fans Chris Higginbottom and James Faulkner to discuss the victory in Germany, with a bit of a focus on individual errors and how the team is riding through bad moments.

Nottingham Forest are up next in the Premier League, as City look to get back to winning ways domestically. Journalist and Forest fan Daniel Storey speaks to the show about how things have started for this season at The City Ground.

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Back-to-back defeats in the Premier League has halted the momentum of the season somewhat, so is this where we begin to see what both the team and Enzo Maresca are made of? David Mooney is joined by City fans Dan Burke and Matt Holland to discuss the loss to Brighton on Saturday.

It’s a return to Champions League action on Wednesday, too, so we hear from journalist Guido Schafer, who covers RB Leipzig. What can City expect from their trip to Germany and how important is it to get the good vibes back after the last we...

It took a penalty shootout, but Manchester City squeaked past Brighton in the fourth round of the League Cup in the first of this week’s double-header. David Mooney is joined by City fan Sam Rosbottom and, from The City Ramble podcast, Joe Olivier to discuss the match.

They also look ahead to Saturday’s Premier League match with the seagulls and look at what elements might be different in the top flight compared to what happened on Wednesday night.

We discover all the previous times City have played a team in consecutive matches throughout the...

After City's first Premier League defeat of the season, David Mooney is joined by City fan Bob Toole and, from Sporting News, Dom Farrell to look at what went wrong at Villa Park. Two individual errors cost the team for Villa's goals, but with the way more games have been open this season, was this result always possible?

With a double-header against Brighton on the horizon, starting with Wednesday's Carabao Cup tie, we hear from Ryan Adsett from Talk Seagulls to find out more about their start to the season. What will be different about the League...

Following the comprehensive 5-1 win over AEK Athens, David Mooney is joined by Simon Bajkowski from the Manchester Evening News and City fan Ciaran Murray. They discuss the rotated team’s performance, the cheekiness of Rayan Cherki, and the quality on show from Phil Foden.

With a potentially tricky test up next at Villa Park, we hear from Frankie Maguire from All Villa No Filler as we preview Saturday’s game.

Plus, what impact has the guilty verdict (and everything that’s come with it) had on you as you try to process what’s been hap...

After the 3-2 win over Ipswich, Enzo Maresca became the first new manager of a club to win their opening seven Premier League games. David Mooney is joined by City fans Ally Fogg and Chris Higginbottom to discuss the performance on Saturday, plus to look at how well the Maresca is doing given everything that's happening at the club right now.

They look ahead to the visit of AEK Athens on Tuesday, with a particular focus on who might play in midfield given the performances of Elliot Anderson, Enzo Fernandez and Ayyoub Bouaddi in recent weeks. Plus...

David Mooney is joined by City fans Richard Burns and Sam Rosbottom to discuss everything that happened in the very exciting (but ultimately fruitless) Champions League tie with Paris Saint Germain. What went wrong for City to be 3-0 down in around half an hour, but what changed to produce a spirited second-half fightback that probably didn't get the rewards it deserved?

Martin from Talking Town joins the show to discuss Ipswich's start to the season, ahead of the visit to the Etihad on Saturday. What can City expect and how will Enzo Maresca approach the game?<...

After a few weeks of off-the-field pressure following the guilty verdict in the Premier League charges, Manchester City returned to action with a 3-0 win at Anfield. David Mooney is joined by Paul Hirst from The Times and City fan Luke Stanley from the MCFC Lads podcast and socials to discuss the performance and the circumstances around the game at Liverpool.

With PSG visiting the Etihad on Wednesday, they also look ahead to that match. Marc Damon from PSG Talk explains how the reigning two-time Champions League winners have started this season as well.

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Ahead of the trip to Liverpool in the first game since the verdict from the independent commission was announced, David Mooney is joined by City fan Liam Wright and, from Sporting News, Dom Farrell to discuss what the match is going to look like. Neil Atkinson from The Anfield Wrap joins the show to give his thoughts, with lots of questions about whether the off-the-pitch story will affect what happens during the 90 minutes.

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We're getting closer to the return of domestic football, but there's still another week to go before a ball is kicked. We've now learned that Manchester City have appealed the independent commission's verdict on the Premier League charges, David Mooney is joined by City fans Mike Hammond and James Faulkner to discuss how they're feeling.

For a bit of a break from the non-stop charges-chat, we've finally delivered on our threat to play out our interview with the former City forward Rodney Marsh. He's discussing how he feels his arrival at Maine Road cost City the title...

David Mooney is joined by City fan Chris Higginbottom and, from the Daily Mail, Jack Gaughan to discuss the latest developments around Manchester City's charges verdict and the complex emotions that are being felt at the moment. Parent and regular podcast guest Richard Burns also speaks to us about how he broached the topic of the verdict with his six-year-old son.

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After the reports that the verdict in the Manchester City 115 charges case is in, David Mooney is joined by City fan Dan Burke and, from StatCity.co.uk, Adam Carter to discuss what a guilty outcome would mean.

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After a ding-dong (or helter-skelter, but NOT a topsy-turvy) game against Sunderland, David Mooney is joined by City fan KC and, from the City Ramble podcast Amos Murphy, to try and work out what happened in all of the chaos.

Why couldn't City control the game and why did it get so crazy at the Etihad? What does it say about City's ability to keep going after Sunderland kept equalising? And, with five wins from five in the Premier League, seven wins from seven in total, how do we rate the performances with those perfect results?

Straight after the 5-0 Carabao Cup win over Norwich, David Mooney is joined by City fan Chris Higginbottom at the Etihad to discuss everything that happened over the last week, including some controversial moments of the 1-0 win at Old Trafford. Phil Foden's red card (and Bruno Fernandes's role in it) are a major bone of contention, but we also look at the fallout from the VAR check on Erling Haaland's goal and a few key individual performances.

Simon Bajkowski from the Manchester Evening News joins us to look ahead to the upcoming match with Sunderland, plus...

Two more wins for Enzo Maresca's Manchester City mean they go into the Manchester Derby on Sunday with back-to-back clean sheets and sitting pretty at the top of the Premier League table. Alongside the good results, what have the performances told us about this new-look version of the team?

David Mooney is joined by Simon Bajkowski from the Manchester Evening News and Dom Farrell from Sporting News to pick through the talking points from the wins over Coventry and Porto.

For the first time in a decade, City go into the Manchester Derby with a...

It's been a busy week for Manchester City. It all started with a comprehensive 4-1 win at Crystal Palace, with impressive performances from a number of players. David Mooney is joined by City fans Bob Toole and Gaz to discuss what happened at Selhurst Park, with a keen eye on Rayan Cherki, Erling Haaland and Phil Foden.

Ahead of that game, it was felt that the squad was far from finished. So with late moves in the transfer window for Iliman Ndiaye, Allan and Enzo Fernandez (on top of the previous business this summer), how is it...

After the last-gasp win over Bournemouth, David Mooney is joined by City fan Richard Burns and, from Sky Sports, Ben Ransom to discuss everything that happened in Enzo Maresca's first Premier League game in charge. Marc Guehi was a surprise inclusion in the midfield, while the VAR overturn in stoppage time was a welcome surprise given City's history was the video referee in the closing stages of matches.

The turnaround on Sunday was the latest City have been losing a Premier League match that they've gone on to win since the famous QPR game in 2012, so Bethan...

After a humbling afternoon in Cardiff, David Mooney is joined by City fan Dan Burke and, from Sporting News, Dom Farrell to pick over the defeat to Arsenal in the Community Shield. It wasn't really the scoreline that put the frighteners on anyone, more the manner of the loss... so what does that mean for City in the early stages of the Enzo Maresca era?

As Rodri leaves for Barcelona and as it looks like there may be further midfield departures, we take a look at the shape the squad is in ahead of the match with...

The Blue Moon Podcast is back for YET another season... On today's show, David Mooney is joined by City fan Ciaran Murray and by the Daily Mail's Jack Gaughan to look back over the pre-season tour of Asia for Manchester City and to discuss what's new about the Enzo Maresca era at the club.

The Athletic's Sam Lee has been speaking to the players on the tour, so he's here to look at what they've said about what's different tactically. Plus, we speak to Tifo's Jon Mackenzie, whose new book "The Spectre of Pep: How Guardiola Haunts...

With the sad news that the former City manager Kevin Keegan has died at the age of 75, David Mooney is joined by City fans Liam Wright and Andy MacNab to discuss his legacy at the club. After taking over in 2001, he led City to promotion from the second tier in style, setting a club record points total and equalling the record for the number of goals City had scored in a single season.

In the final season at Maine Road and City's first back in the Premier League, he led the club to a ninth-placed finish and...

Ahead of the World Cup in the USA, Canada and Mexico, David Mooney is joined by guests from each of the countries that have Manchester City players in their squads to discuss what roles those players will have for their national teams and their chances of bringing home a winners medal at the end of the tournament.

The guests (in order of appearance) are:

🇫🇷 Jeremy Smith (on Cherki, France)

🇳🇴 Jens Friberg (on Haaland, Norway)

🇺🇿 Conor Bowers (on Khusanov, Uzbekistan)

🇵🇹 Tom Kundert (on Bernardo, Dias and Nunes, Portugal)

🇪🇸 Guil...

To close this season, David Mooney is joined by City fan Richard Burns, journalist and City fan Dom Farrell from Sporting News, and the former City manager Brian Horton to reflect on the 2025-26 season and the Pep Guardiola era as a whole.

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David Mooney is joined, at varying stages in this special episode, by City fans KC, Gaz, Chris Higginbottom, Sam Rosbottom, Adam Carter and Bob Toole, plus journalists Paul Hirst from The Times and Jack Gaughan from the Daily Mail, all to reflect on a remarkable 10 years of Pep Guardiola at the Etihad.

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What a week. Manchester City have lifted the FA Cup to make it a domestic cup double, but a draw at Bournemouth on Tuesday also ended their hopes of lifting the Premier League title... while the news also broke this week that Pep Guardiola will call time on his career at the Etihad at the end of the season.

David Mooney is joined by City fan Ciaran Murray and, from the Manchester Evening News, Simon Bajkowski to try and make sense of all the emotions that we're feeling. Both the victory over Chelsea and the stalemate on...

After back-to-back 3-0 victories, Manchester City have (at the very least) made sure the title race goes down to the final week of the season. David Mooney is joined by City fan Dan Burke and, from Sporting News, Dom Farrell to reflect on the performances and the results against both Brentford and Crystal Palace.

There was impressive displays from Phil Foden this week, so we look at whether he could grab a place in the starting XI for the FA Cup final against Chelsea on Saturday... and with such a big game in mind, how does Pep...

After City stumbled at Everton, the big question of how problematic it was to their title ambitions could get an answer this week. David Mooney is joined by The Daily Mail's Jack Gaughan and, from StatCity.co.uk, Adam Carter to discuss the performance and what went wrong in a mad 13-minute spell at the Hill Dickinson.

With Brentford up next, we hear from Mike Johnston from The Ealing Road podcast to find out how their chase for European football is going. And, after that, it's that re-arranged game with Crystal Palace... following on from Arsenal's trip...

Yet another FA Cup semi-final successfully navigated means Pep Guardiola will become the first person to lead a team to four successive Cup Finals. David Mooney is joined by City fan Chris Higginbottom and, from Football365, Sarah Winterburn to discuss the week's news.

That FA Cup Final has had a knock-on effect all over the place, too. It means Guardiola will become the City manager with the most matches taken charge of at the end of this season, taking him to 593 (one more than Les McDowall). We speak to the football historian Gary James about that milestone...

Manchester City are back to the top of the Premier League table. It's the narrowest of narrow margins - they're above Arsenal purely by virtue of scoring more goals - but it's still a much more advantageous position than they've been in for quite some time. David Mooney is joined by City fans Dan Burke and Gaz to discuss the fallout from the games against Arsenal and Burnley.

The Athletic's tactics writer, Michael Cox (also known as Zonal Marking on socials), speaks to the show about how Pep Guardiola is using Nico O'Reilly and how it's an...

After a comprehensive 3-0 win over Chelsea, David Mooney is joined by City fan Ally Fogg and football commentator Mike Minay to reflect on where that has left the title race - in the wake of Arsenal's defeat at home to Bournemouth. They look at the strength of the back five, plus the influence of Rayan Cherki on City's creativity at the business end of the season.

Why do City always seem to hit their stride in the springtime? Sam Rosbottom has been looking at what Pep Guardiola and others say about it. Plus, with Arsenal to...

Back-to-back statement wins and big performances have left a big question for Manchester City going into the final stretch of the campaign... Is this the 'click' and are City about to do one of their trademark end-of-season runs? Let's all find out together.

To discuss the victory over Liverpool, David Mooney is joined by City fan and presenter Adam Monk and by the Daily Mail's Jack Gaughan. They look at the overall display, plus the latest Erling Haaland hat-trick, and the debate around James Trafford and Gianluigi Donnarumma... Plus they also chat about Bernardo Silva, after Pep...

The international break is over and it's back to action for Manchester City for the final stretch of the season. It all begins with Liverpool in the FA Cup on Saturday lunchtime. David Mooney is joined by City fan Ciaran Murray and, from The Athletic, Thom Harris to discuss the game - with a little help from Neil Atkinson from The Anfield Wrap, too.

As Manchester City Women take a commanding lead at the top of the WSL table, we speak to Paul Clarke from the Man City Women Fancast to discuss their prospects of a first...

The Carabao Cup trophy is back at the Etihad, its rightful home, and David Mooney is joined by City fan KC and, from Sporting News, Dom Farrell to discuss the final against Arsenal. City have now won the League Cup under the Carabao banner more than any other team combined and Pep Guardiola has become the first manager ever to win the trophy on five different occasions.

With the international break to come, there's plenty of room in today's show to discuss the key performances from the victory at Wembley, which means giving due praise to the...

It was a terminal week for Manchester City's Champions League hopes, with elimination at the hands of Real Madrid (including the hand of Bernardo Silva if we're being strictly accurate about it all). Meanwhile, the team's hopes of winning the Premier League title were dealt a blow after they failed to keep pace with leaders Arsenal with a 1-1 draw at West Ham.

David Mooney is joined by City fans James Faulkner and, from the MCFC Lads podcast and social pages, Luke Stanley. They discuss the performances and the results this week... because there is a difference...

Just when you thought everything was getting back on track with a lovely 3-1 FA Cup win at Newcastle on Saturday, a 3-0 away defeat in the first leg of the Champions League last-16 against Real Madrid comes along to ruin your Wednesday. David Mooney is joined by City fans Andy MacNab and, from The City Ramble podcast, Joe Butterfield to discuss this week's shifting emotions.

It's West Ham next in another Saturday evening game, as City get back to league action aiming to keep the pressure on leaders Arsenal. James Jones from We Are West Ham...

David Mooney is joined by The Sun's Martin Blackburn and, from the City Ramble podcast, Amos Murphy to look back over the win at Leeds and the draw with Nottingham Forest. Where have the results left Manchester City in the title race? But have the performances still be trending in the right direction, even if there's been a bit of a knock to the system?

After the break to allow the Muslim players to break their Ramandan fast on Saturday, we've spoken to Seemo from City's first Muslim supporters club, Blue Crescent OSC, to get his thoughts...

After a hard-fought victory against Newcastle, the top of the Premier League table is very interesting. David Mooney is joined by City fan Chris Higginbottom and former City goalkeeper Andie Worrall to discuss what happened in Saturday's 2-1 win and where it's left the title race after Arsenal also responded in the North London Derby.

What about City's style change this season too? We hear from Pep Guardiola, Pep Lijnders and Bernardo Silva as we look at how City are coping with a more physical and more direct Premier League. What principles have changed to get to...

An absolute snooze-fest against Salford won't stop us! Never fear, the Blue Moon Podcast is here to try and find the interesting bits of a dull game... Or, we might actually focus more on the other bits of news from the week. David Mooney is joined by City fan Ciaran Murray and, from The Times, Paul Hirst to discuss everything from the last seven days.

In the news is James Trafford – he's given a couple of interviews about his situation at the club and the reaction has been very polarised... Should he have stayed quiet now that th...

After a remarkable week, where Manchester City won at Anfield for the first time (in front of fans) in more than 20 years, David Mooney is joined by City fan Liam Wright and, from Sporting News, Dom Farrell to discuss all of the talking points from the two games.

They look at City's second-half drop-offs and what might be causing them, how the team is fighting through their issues to win points, and the individual performances that have helped them to two victories this week. That's before we get to the madness of what happened at the end...

Progress to the League Cup final, but a disappointing draw at Tottenham from having been 2-0 up at the weekend... David Mooney is joined by The Daily Mail's Jack Gaughan and, from the City Ramble podcast, Oli McCoole to pick apart the week.
Why are City struggling with second halves so much in the last few weeks? Is there a problem with the forward players taking chances? How does all of that play out in one of City's notoriously most-difficult away games coming up next?
Also this week, Pep Guardiola gave a very interesting press conference ahead of...

Progress to the League Cup final, but a disappointing draw at Tottenham from having been 2-0 up at the weekend... David Mooney is joined by The Daily Mail's Jack Gaughan and, from the City Ramble podcast, Oli McCoole to pick apart the week.
Why are City struggling with second halves so much in the last few weeks? Is there a problem with the forward players taking chances? How does all of that play out in one of City's notoriously most-difficult away games coming up next?
Also this week, Pep Guardiola gave a very interesting press conference ahead of...